Dev Dilemma: Hiding a 2-Week Dev Project to Avoid GitHub Maintenance Burden
SackManFamilyFriend · reddit · 2026-08-26
A developer shared a common dilemma in the open-source community: after spending two weeks building a novel H3 node with the help of advanced coding models, they chose not to release it. The fear was that if the project became popular, it would consume even more time handling GitHub tech support, troubleshooting other users' hardware issues, and general maintenance. The author asks if others have faced this or found strategies to cope.
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